The Humiliation of Messiah

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1 Jesus, thy beauties I explore!
Who am a helpless worm;
Adoring now and evermore
Thy crucified form.

2 When on thy cross, my dearest Lord,
What Love didst thou display!
Eternal annals shall record
The great uncommon day.

3 Down low, beneath the wrath of heav'n,
Thy troubled soul did bow;
Humiliation deeply grav'n
Upon thy bleeding brow.

4 My God! my God! was then thy cry,
Why hast thou me forsook?
Nature, replying with a sigh,
In strong convulsions shook.

5 More marr'd than any man's thy face,
Thy judgment's took away;
Nor men, nor angels then could trace
Thy mystery, thy day.

6 Tho' Satan once did us enslave,
Now thou hast bruis'd his head;
And in thyself didst fully save
Thy lov'd, thy royal seed.

7 Hence everlasting praise belongs
To thee our God and King:
Do thou but influence our songs,
And we will ever sing.

Source: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: selected and original, designed for the use of the Church Universal in public and private devotion #CXXXIII

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Author: James Relly

James Relly was born about 1722 at Jeffreston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, and died in 1778. He was converted to Christianity during the Great Awakening ushered in by George Whitefield. He worked under George Whitefield as a Calvinistic Methodist preacher and missionary. However, Whitefield and Relly separated ways over Relly's seemingly universalist teaching that all humanity was elect (i.e. saved) when Christ took the punishment for all sin when he died. He also departed from both the Calvinists and Methodists by taking the doctrine of Justification further, in teaching that believers no longer sin and the Law's sole purpose is to condemn humanity and point them to Christ. He was the mentor of John Murray, the founder of the Universalist Ch… Go to person page >

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